Why is Shavuot celebrated?

Answer 1

1) It commemorates the date that God gave the Ten Commandments.

2) Every one of the festivals has as its purpose "remembering the Exodus from Egypt" (as stated in our prayers and the kiddush over wine).

3) In addition, Shavuot is a Thanksgiving to God for the wheat-harvest.

Answer 2

From Wikipedia:

"Shavout is a Jewish holiday that occurs on the sixth day of the Hebrew month of Sivan (late May or early June). Shavuot commemorates the anniversary of the day God gave the Torah to the entire Israelite nation assembled at Mount Sinai, although the association between the giving of the Torah (Matan Torah) and Shavuot is not explicit in the Biblical text."

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Answer 3

Wherever Jewish people live.

Answer 4

Shavuot is celebrated 50 days after the first night of Pesach (Passover) and therefore known as Pentecost. The name also means weeks, because it is traditional to count a week of weeks, 7 times 7, counting every evening. At the end of the 49th count, it is Shavuot. Like all 3 Jewish pilgrimage festivals, the liturgy includes an abbreviated evening service (so that people can get home to their evening festival meal) and an expanded morning service that resembles the Sabbath morning service with the full Hallel (psalms of praise) added in. It is also traditioinal to read the Book of Ruth on Shavuot. Shavuot is a harvest festival, but it also celebrates the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai, so one tradition is an all-night study session, ending with a morning service at dawn. Finally, it is traditional to celebrate Shavuot with dairy foods. Blintzes, cheesecake and similar foods are popular. The Reform movement encourages congregations to use Shavuot to celebrate confirmation, a new invention in the Jewish world, commonly a celebration of those children who have continued to attend religious school after the age of bar mitzvah.